"A problem well put is half solved". Comment

"A problem well put is half solved". Comment

A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved. John Dewey, philosopher Know what you are looking for so you don't get bogged down with information overload. Arm the Explorer with a well defined problem. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one your have, Emiie Chartier, Philosopher Look for as many facts, theories, concepts, rules, data, feelings and impressions as you can collect. A professional photographer takes literally hundreds of photos to get a few good ones. (At a recent Super Bowl, Sports Illustrated photographers shot 250 36-shot rolls of film to get the 10-20 shots that actually made the magazineJ A good problem-solver should generate many ideas in hopes of finding a really good so 1 u Lion.
Inventing is a skill that, some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution. ..because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner. The most likely inventor candidate would be someone who says, "Yes, that's the one way to do it, but it doesn't seem to be an optimum solution." Then he keeps on thinking. Ray
Look Beyond the First Right Answer!
One thing can lead to something completely -different. • Shift your focus.

Research Methodology for Management Decisior.s(.MS-95)
• Don't overlook the obvious.
« Pay attention to the small tilings.
• Look at the big picture.
• Slay a dragon.
• Use obstacles to break out of ruts.
• Find the ideas you already have.
• Write it down!
People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail. Roger von Oech, author
The Explorer starts the creative problem-solving pi*ocess. To be effective, the Explorer must be courageous, flexible and open.
The Artist follows the Explorer, takes what the Explorer generated, and manipulates the ideas.
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist, Eric Gill, Philosopher For the sound of a spaceship's high speed deceleration in the atmosphere of Jupiter, a sound designer on a science fiction movie tried, a few varied ideas. Then he set a piece of dry ice on a piece of sheet metal. He put a microphone nearby and heated the bottom side of the sheet metal with a blow torch. The quick melting of the dry ice gave the designer exactly what he was looking for. The Artist's tools are in his or her mind-
• Adapt-Change contexts.
• Imagme-Ask. "What if...?"
• Reverse-Look at it backwards.
» Connect-Join together.
• Compare-Make a metaphor.
• Eliminate-Break the rules.
• Parody-Fool around.
• Incubate-Do nothing.
Creative Thinking may simply mean the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done Roger von Oech.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an. artist after growing up.
The Judge takes over only after the Explorer and Artist are finished.
The Judge evaluates the results.
Play is what i do for a living; the work comes in evaluating the
results of the play. Mac MacDougall, Computer Architect
The Judge must evaluate based on some criteria and not be skewed
by wrong assumptions-
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a
strange protein and resists it with similar energy. W. I. Beveridge.
Scientist
• What's wrong with this idea?
• What if it fails'?
* What assumptions am-I making?
• Are my assumptions current?
• What's my cultural bias?
* What clouding my thinking
• Bring in the fool.
• Make the Decision!
If you spend too much time warming up. you'll miss the race. If you
don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race. Grand Heidrich,
Runner
No matter how hard the Explorer, Artist and Judge worked, if the
solution isn't pursued, the idea is worthless. Making it happen is the
job of the Warrior.
Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do. Yoda in The Empire
Strikes Back
Remember'
• Change is inevitable.
• Everyone resists change.
Therefore, the Warrior must-
• Put together a plan.
• Put a fire in his or her belly.
• Put a lion is his or her heart.
• Get going.
• Strengthen his or her shield.
• Sell, Sell, Sell.
« Be persistent.
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do. or you get up and do them!